We live in an age of intelligence. From phones and cars to homes
and networks, everything is smart - even farming, thanks to
Ravensdown. The New Zealand farmer-owned cooperative is enabling a
smarter way to farm by providing its owners – who produce food that
feeds 20 million people around the world – with innovative
products, expertise and technology that minimize environmental
impacts and allow them to optimise value from their land. And with
the help of Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) and Citrix Systems
Solution Advisor and 2019 Partner Innovation Award finalist Inde
Technology, the co-op is taking things to new levels.
“Technology is an important part of enabling smarter farming,
and improving customer experience,” said Mark McAtamney, CIO of
Ravensdown. To this end, Ravensdown has overhauled the IT network
that powers its quarries and stores.
“Many companies are facing complex upgrade and patching
challenges within their application and desktop delivery platforms,
all combined with more and more initiatives to adopt cloud
services,” said Ralf Donkers, Consulting Engineer, Inde. “Working
closely with Ravensdown, we helped them transition to an evergreen
Citrix® Workspace control plane combined with a next-generation
network based on Citrix SD-WAN technology, resulting in optimal
delivery of all their applications complemented by a robust network
infrastructure for accessing the cloud.”
And according to McAtamney, an improved customer experience.
“Our stores and quarries across the country have been benefitting
from a physical overhaul,” he said. “It’s easy to notice the
difference when a new roof goes on, but behind-the-scenes projects
like the Citrix upgrade help our staff deliver the services our
customers value.”
Secure, Reliable Technology
Ravensdown’s IT network supports 750 users across 50 sites. And
with many of these sites in rural locations where performance
issues and network outages are common, keeping this network
reliably connected was a major challenge. According to David
Forster, Infrastructure Manager for Ravensdown, patching and
upgrades had become a big overhead for the co-op’s IT team.
“We wanted to work smarter and free the team up to focus on new
and innovative technology solutions,” he said. “So we began looking
for a solution that ticked all the boxes. It had to improve
end-user experience, network resilience and the delivery of our
computer applications.”
And it found one in Citrix.
“The Citrix suite stood out as the best option,” Forster said.
“It delivered an ecosystem that gave us the integrated platform we
were after and users say it’s making a difference in terms of
syncing data and simplifying things.
A Modern, Unified Experience
With the help of Inde, Ravensdown implemented Citrix’s digital
workspace and networking solutions.
“For Ravensdown, it’s important the staff working throughout the
country have a reliable and consistent experience,” Donkers said.
“Like the environmental consultant out in the field aggregating
data on the farms who needs to move that data to central
services.”
Using Citrix Workspace and Citrix SD-WAN, Inde has helped
Ravensdown deliver this experience. “With the implementation of
Citrix SD-WAN across our stores, network outages have gone away and
performance has improved for our core applications,” Forster
said.
The high moment in Inde’s mind? “When we had Ravensdown’s SD-WAN
in a box in the middle of nowhere and three days of zero downtime,”
said Rik Roberts, Consulting Engineer, Inde.
Simple. Intelligent. Reliable. Secure. This is the future of
work. And with Citrix and Inde, Ravensdown is delivering it today.
To learn more about the co-op’s efforts, click here.
About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is powering a better way to work with
unified workspace, networking, and analytics solutions that help
organizations unlock innovation, engage customers, and boost
productivity, without sacrificing security. With Citrix, users get
a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure,
manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud
environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000
organizations including 99 percent of the Fortune 100 and 98
percent of the Fortune 500.
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